13.Parents who spend time and money to teach their children music,take heart-a new Canadian study show young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical fellows.
"The research tells us that if you take music lessons your brain is getting wired up differently than if you don't take music lessons,"Laurel Trainor,professor of psychology,neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Hamilton,Ontario,said."This is the first study to show that brain responses in young,musically trained and untrained children change differently over the course of a year,"said Trainor.
Over a year they took four measurements in two groups of children aged between four and six--those taking music lessons and those taking no musical training outside school--and found developmental changes over periods as short as four months.
The children completed a music test in which they were asked to discriminate between harmonies,rhythms and melodies,and a memory test in which they had to listen to a series of numbers,remember them and repeat them back.
Trainor said while previous studies have shown that older children given music lessons had greater improvements in IQ scores than children given drama lessons,this is the first study to identify these effects in brain-based measurements in young children.
She said it was not that surprising that children studying music improved in musical listening skills more than children not studying music.


57.The main idea of the passage isC.
A.how children like music
B.whether music is good for adults
C.that children are wiser if they are taught music
D.how we leach music
58.The research is conducted onD.
A.children under 6     B.children over 4
C.a(chǎn)dults               D.children between 4and 6
59.The experiment is to proveA
A.whether musically trained and untrained children change differently
B.which are wiser,older children or younger children.
C.which are wiser,children given music lessons or children given drama lessons.
D.whether children should have music lessons.
60.What were the student asked to do in the experiment?C
A.The students only had a music test
B.The students told the differences between music lessons
C.The students had both a music lest and a memory test
D.The students were asked to sing some songs.

分析 本文屬于科教類的短文閱讀.文章主要介紹了上過(guò)音樂(lè)課的兒童比那些沒(méi)上過(guò)音樂(lè)課的同齡兒童記憶力要好,并通過(guò)實(shí)驗(yàn)進(jìn)行了論證,得出的結(jié)論就是參加過(guò)音樂(lè)訓(xùn)練的孩子也更加聰明.

解答 CDAC
57.C.主旨大意題.根據(jù)對(duì)本文內(nèi)容的分析以及第二段中The research tells us that if you take music lessons your brain is getting wired up differently than if you don't take music lessons可知,本文主要介紹了上個(gè)音樂(lè)課對(duì)孩子的智力發(fā)展是有很大作用的,即上音樂(lè)課的孩子要比其他沒(méi)有上個(gè)音樂(lè)課的孩子在各方面表現(xiàn)都要優(yōu)秀;故選C.
58.D.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第三段Over a year they took four measurements in two groups of children aged between four and six可知,實(shí)驗(yàn)的對(duì)象是年齡在4到6歲的孩子群體;故選D.
59.A.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第二段中This is the first study to show that brain responses in young,musically trained and untrained children change differently over the course of a year,可知,實(shí)驗(yàn)的目的就是發(fā)現(xiàn)受過(guò)音樂(lè)培訓(xùn)和沒(méi)有受過(guò)培訓(xùn)的孩子在電腦發(fā)育方面的差異;故選A.
60.C.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第四段中The children completed a music test in which they were asked to discriminate between harmonies,rhythms and melodies,and a memory test可知,在實(shí)驗(yàn)中孩子需要做的事情就是參加音樂(lè)測(cè)試和記憶力測(cè)試;故選C.

點(diǎn)評(píng) 在做閱讀理解題時(shí),首先需要快速的瀏覽全文,把握文章的主旨大意;其次要學(xué)會(huì)帶著問(wèn)題到文中相應(yīng)的地方,通過(guò)細(xì)節(jié)閱讀來(lái)尋找或概括答案;最后理清作者的寫(xiě)作思路也非常重要;總之,做此類題時(shí),需要平時(shí)加大閱讀量,掌握一些閱讀技巧

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